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Understanding (and customizing) Tilix

Tilix does things differently than most terminal emulators – for better and for worse.

Post date June 29, 2022
Post categories In Desktop, Linux

Powerline secrets

You know that XKCD comic where the protagonist googles a tech question and the only matching result is from a long dead thread or even forum that details…

Post date August 21, 2019
Post categories In Linux

No Title: Working around the missing –title parameter in Gnome Terminal

About a year ago the Gnome developers took away the option to run Gnome terminal with the –title parameter. This allowed you to give the terminal window a…

Post date December 3, 2015
Post categories In Desktop, Linux

Decrypting drives using the command line

Encrypted USB drives are fairly easy to use on most linux desktops. Whatever automount supplier you’re running with will pop up a dialogue window asking for the password…

Post date November 19, 2015
Post categories In Linux